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BiH is hosting this year's ReSPA Meeting of the Ministers of the Western Balkans

Regional School for Public Administration (ReSPA) organizes Governing Board meeting at Ministerial level on Tuesday, 11 December in Sarajevo, Hotel Europe. Meeting is scheduled to start at 10 am.

Minister of Justice of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Deputy Minister of Interior of Albania, Minister
of Public Administration of Croatia, Minister
of information Society and Administration of Macedonia, High Level Official
from Montenegro and Minister
of Justice and Public Administration of Serbia will attend the meeting as well as Mr Gerhard Schumann-Hitzler, Director of IPA Strategy and Regional Cooperation Directorate within
the European Commission.

Aim of this meeting is to measure results in development of PAR and EU Integration in Western
Balkans. This event sets the platform in which ministers in charge for Public
Administration Reform and European Integration process meet annually. Public Adminsitration Reform, along EU Integration, are
very important process for administration and both processes are considered priorities
for Western Balkans countries.

ReSPA staff will inform the ministers about the
current progress and present guidelines and recommendations for the future development.
Given the common goal regarding the process of European integration, the meeting
will be an opportunity to exchange experiences and improve cooperation between
the countries of the Western Balkans.

This year's Chair of ReSPA
is Bosnia and Herzegovina and at the end of the event, the Minister of Justice of
BiH Mr. Barisa Colak will transfer duties to the Croatian Minister of Public
Administration Mr. Arsen Bauk, by which Croatia will assume the chairmanship of
ReSPA in the year 2013.

About us

ReSPA is an international
organisation which has been entrusted with the mission of boosting regional
cooperation in the field of public administration in the Western Balkans. As
such, ReSPA is a unique historical endeavour, established to support the
creation of accountable, effective and professional public administration
systems for the Western Balkans on their way to EU accession.

ReSPA seeks to achieve this
mission through the organisation and delivery of training activities, high
level conferences, networking events, summer schools, study tours and
publications, the overall objectives of which are to transfer new knowledge and
skills as well as to facilitate the exchange of experiences both within the
region and between the region and the EU Member States.

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